"For all his learning or sophistication, man still……" — Hal Borland
"For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is."
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58 Quotes by Hal Borland
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full…
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is…
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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills…
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology…
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A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block…
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April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due…
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To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of…
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a…
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